Outside the Beltway

Returning to a debate from the comment section.

On racism, Republicans, and names

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

An unsurprising win in the Pelican State.

Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s historic decision, public support for same-sex marriage continues to rise even among groups that were previously strongly opposed to it.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz for President, leading to the question of why Ted Cruz thinks an endorsement from Rick Perry has any value whatsoever.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

Democrat John Bel Edwards scored an easy victory over Senator David Vitter last night in Louisiana, and Vitter announced that he’d be leaving the Senate after his term is up.

Even as the focus of the Presidential race shifts to national security, Donald Trump continues to lead the race.

It’s Election Day in Louisiana again, and voters have the same crappy choices they usually end up with.

Different criteria than in the past, but there may not be much of a change in the participants.

Seemingly disproving yet another round of predictions of his imminent demise, Donald Trump continues to dominate the race for the Republican nomination.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee recently kept company with a very disturbing religious leader.

The initial responses of the Republican candidates for President to the attacks in Paris are about what you’d expect, but it’s far too early to tell what impact the events of the weekend will have on the race for President here in the United States.

Last night’s debate in Wisconsin was arguably the most substantive we’ve seen so far between the Republican candidates, and one that displayed quite starkly the policy differences between them.

Candidates who have been excluded from tomorrow’s Fox Business Network are complaining, but their complaints ignore the fact that polling is the best objective criteria we have to determine debate eligibility.